------ Installing Secondary Artifacts ------ Dennis Lundberg ------ 2009-03-22 ------ ~~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one ~~ or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file ~~ distributed with this work for additional information ~~ regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file ~~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the ~~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance ~~ with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at ~~ ~~ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 ~~ ~~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, ~~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an ~~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY ~~ KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the ~~ specific language governing permissions and limitations ~~ under the License. ~~ NOTE: For help with the syntax of this file, see: ~~ http://maven.apache.org/doxia/references/apt-format.html Installing Secondary Artifacts Sometimes you need to install secondary artifacts after the main artifact has been installed in your local repository. To install a secondary artifact you need to use the <<>> parameter to classify the secondary artifact. Let us assume that you want to install the sources for an old artifact, like commons-logging-1.0.3. The {{{http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-logging/commons-logging/1.0.3/}central repository}} only has the main artifact and a <<<-javadoc>>> artifact for that version. Package up the sources into a JAR file on your local disk and then run the following command: +---+ mvn install:install-file -Dfile=path-to-commons-logging-sources.jar \ -DgroupId=commons-logging \ -DartifactId=commons-logging \ -Dversion=1.0.3 \ -Dpackaging=jar \ -Dclassifier=sources +---+